Daniel holds degrees in Conducting, Piano and Music Theory from the Norwegian Academy of Music, the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt and the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.

A winner of the Opptakt Competition, he also participated in its conducting programme from 2020 to 2022.

During the 2026/27 season, he will serve as Kapellmeister at the Landestheater Linz, conducting six productions.

From 2022 to 2025, Daniel served as Music Director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (COYO) and as Assistant and Associate Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra. In 2023, he led the orchestra at the Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival, substituting for Franz Welser-Möst. He subsequently conducted an all-Tchaikovsky programme featuring Yuja Wang and a complete cycle of Beethoven’s piano concertos and Triple Concerto in 2024.

In Cleveland, he collaborated with conductors including Daniel Harding, Michael Tilson Thomas, Herbert Blomstedt, Semyon Bychkov, Klaus Mäkelä and Esa-Pekka Salonen, and worked with soloists such as Yunchan Lim, Stephen Hough, Augustin Hadelich and Julia Hagen.

Daniel regularly appears with Scandinavian orchestras including the Oslo Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. He also served as Assistant and Second Conductor at the Norwegian National Opera for a production of Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld and a concert featuring Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra.

Daniel has a particular interest in the German repertoire and in reviving neglected works for contemporary audiences.